Jürgen Jost

Jürgen Jost (born June 9, 1956 in Münster ) is a German mathematician. Since 1996 he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences in Leipzig .

Jürgen Jost (right) 2008 with Yum-Tong Siu and Mina Teicher

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After graduating from high school Citadel in Jülich and the 1975 initiated studies of mathematics , physics , economics and philosophy Jürgen Jost was at the 1980 University of Bonn with Stefan Hildebrandt doctorate . In 1984 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn in the field of mathematics.

After his habilitation, Jost took over the chair for Mathematics X, Analysis at the Ruhr University Bochum . During this time he was the coordinator of the project “Stochastic Analysis and Systems with Infinitely Many Degrees of Freedom” within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 237, which was carried out from July 1987 to December 1996. In 1993 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for his work .

Since 1996 he has been director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences in Leipzig . After more than 10 years of work in Bochum, he accepted the offer of the Max Planck Institute to “tackle new research problems in the border area between mathematics and the natural sciences and at the same time promote mathematical research in Germany, especially in the areas of geometry and analysis ". In 1998 he also became an honorary professor at the University of Leipzig . In 2002 he initiated the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics (IZBI) there with two other scientists from the Max Planck Institute .

In 1986 Jost was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley ( Two dimensional geometric variational problems ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Research areas

His research interests focus on the areas:

• Complex dynamic systems
• Neural Networks
• Cognitive structures and theoretical neurobiology
• Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis
• Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics
• Cognitive theory
• Theoretical biology
• geometry
• Analysis
• Mathematical physics

Memberships

• since 1996 Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences in Leipzig ,
• since 1998 member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz
• since 2001 member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig
• since 2002 member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• External faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute for Complexity Science in New Mexico , USA

Publications

• Harmonic mappings between Riemannian manifolds , ANU-Press, Canberra, 1983
• Harmonic maps between surfaces , Springer LNM 1062, 1984, ISBN 978-3-540-13339-1 , doi : 10.1007 / BFb0100160
• Nonlinear methods in complex geometry , Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, series: DMV-Seminare, Vol. 10, 1988; 2nd edition 1991
• Two dimensional geometric variational problems , Wiley-Interscience, Chichester, 1991, ISBN 978-0471928393
• Differential Geometry and Minimal Surfaces , Springer, 1994; 2nd edition 2007 (with J.-H. Eschenburg), ISBN 978-3-540-22227-9 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-68293-6
• Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis , Springer, 1995; 7th edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-61859-3 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-61860-9
• Compact Riemann Surfaces , Springer, 1997; 3rd edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-33065-3 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-33067-7
• Postmodern Analysis , Springer, 1905, 3rd edition 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-25830-8 , doi : 10.1007 / 3-540-28890-2
• A mathematical introduction to string theory - variational problems, geometric and probabilistic methods (with S. Albeverio, S. Paycha and S. Scarlatti), London Math. Soc., Lecture Note Series 225, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0521556101
• Calculus of Variations (with X. Li-Jost), Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0521057127
• Nonpositive curvature: Geometric and analytic aspects , (Lectures in mathematics: ETH Zurich), Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel, 1997, ISBN 978-3764357368
• Partial differential equations , Springer, 1998, ISBN 978-3-540-64222-0 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-58888-4
• Bosonic Strings: A mathematical treatment , AMS International Press, 2001
• Partial Differential Equations , Springer, 2002, 3rd edition 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-4808-2 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4614-4809-9
• Dynamical Systems. Examples of Complex Behavior , Springer, 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-22908-7 , doi : 10.1007 / 3-540-28889-9
• Geometry and Physics , Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-00540-4 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-00541-1
• Mathematical Concepts , Springer 2015
• with Nihat Ay, Hông Vân Lê, Lorenz Schwachhöfer: Information Geometry , Results of Mathematics and its Border Areas , Springer 2016
• Biology and Mathematics , Springer Spectrum 2019
• Leibniz and modern science , Springer 2019
• Algebraic structures. A brief introduction , Springer 2019
• Spectra, sheaves, schemes. A brief introduction , Springer 2019
• Category theory. A brief introduction , Springer 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Jost in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Jost in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
• Website of Jürgen Jost Max Planck Institute
• Website by Jürgen Jost at the University of Leipzig
• Interview with Jürgen Jost and Dr. Hans-Joachim Freund on the Max Planck Society's offer
• Author profile Jürgen Jost in the database zbMATH

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Jost's curriculum vitae ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 56 kB)
2. ↑ Farewell questions to 2 Leibniz Prize winners. Rubens (Ruhr-Uni-Bochum), October 29, 2004, accessed on February 2, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Member entry by Jürgen Jost at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 11, 2017
4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Jost (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 7, 2016.